{"id":45808,"date":"2022-05-28T09:26:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T13:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45808"},"modified":"2022-05-28T09:26:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T13:26:29","slug":"this-should-be-called-treason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45808","title":{"rendered":"This Should Be Called Treason"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, Gregg Jarrett<\/a> reported that during the Trump administration as President Trump was attempting to negotiate with Iran, former officials of the Obama administration \u201cengaged in a secret meeting with Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

A group of senior Obama administration officials met with Iran in 2018 as \u201cpart of an effort to undermine the Trump administration\u2019s diplomatic push to isolate the hardline regime, according to an internal State Department document\u201d reports The Washington Free Beacon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe document is the firmest proof to date that Obama-era officials were engaged in back-channel efforts to keep negotiations with Iran alive\u201d writes The Beacon. The memo states then-President Trump and his administration were working to increase economic pressure on Iran in 2018, but the delegation of U.S. former ambassadors held a secret, \u201coff-the-record\u201d meeting with former Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif at his residence in New York City.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The seven-page memo was assembled during the meeting with Zarif, during which Zarif claimed that Trump\u2019s policies have fomented anti-U.S. fervor in Iran and pointed to the popularity of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) leader Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated by Trump two years later in a drone strike.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI was as popular as Soleimani, but now I am at 47 percent and his is up,\u201d Zarif said, according to the memo. \u201cHe is closer to 80 percent. People of Iran once preferred engagement, now opted for resistance as the only reality. That is what the polls are telling us now and it is the reality of the region.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article quotes The Washington Free Beacon<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who was not aware of these meetings while leading the State Department, said the memo corroborates reports from the time about Kerry\u2019s efforts to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal through back-channel powwows with Iranian officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis memo reflects even more than we already knew about former State Department officials continuing on as if they were still in office,\u201d said Pompeo, who is now senior counsel for global affairs at the ACLJ. \u201cTrying, at every turn, to work with the foreign minister for a terrorist regime, Iran, to undermine the very sanctions put in place by America. It\u2019s worse than not knowing when to get off stage. Actively seeking to protect the terrible deal they struck, these former officials\u2014two years after Obama left office\u2014were signaling that Iran should stand firm against America.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everyone involved should be tried for treason.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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